Slavery Quotes - Page 40

• Better that we should die fighting than be outraged and dishonored... Better to die than to live in slavery.

  Emmeline Pankhurst

  Fighting, Feminism, Should

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• Negro slavery is an evil of colossal magnitude.

  John Adams

  Evil, Magnitude, Colossal

  John Adams (1997). “Rivoluzioni e Costituzioni”, p.37, Guida Editori

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• Slavery is a foul contagion in the human character.

  John Adams

  Character, Foul, Contagion

  John Adams' Letter to Joseph Ward, founders.archives.gov. January 8, 1810.

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• Activist Supreme Courts are not new. The Dred Scott decision in 1856, imposing slavery in free territories; the Plessy decision in 1896, imposing segregation on a private railroad company; the Korematsu decision in 1944, upholding Franklin Roosevelt’s internment of American citizens, mostly Japanese Americans; and the Roe decision in 1973, imposing abortion on the entire nation; are examples of the consequences of activist Courts and justices.

  Mark Levin

  Justice, Decision, Abortion

  "Men in Black". Interview with Kathryn Lopez, www.nationalreview.com. February 1, 2005.

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• Every tax, however, is to the person who pays it a badge, not of slavery but of liberty. It denotes that he is a subject to government, indeed, but that, as he has some property, he cannot himself be the property of a master.

  Adam Smith

  Government, Liberty, Pay

  Adam Smith (1827). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.362

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• Emancipate yourself from mental slavery,
  None but ourselves can free our minds.
  Have no fear for atomic energy,
  'Cause none of them can stop the time.

  Bob Marley

  Music, Mind, Energy

  "Song: 'Uprising'". 1979.

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• But when you see personal artifacts relating to - by genealogy at least - a living human being, it was just more impressive to me than just about anything I've ever read about slavery before.

  Bob Edwards

  Genealogy, Impressive, Artifacts

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• Slavery was not born of racism; rather, racism was the consequence of slavery.

  Eric Williams

  Racism, Born, Consequence

  Eric Williams (2014). “The Economic Aspect of the Abolition of the West Indian Slave Trade and Slavery”, p.16, Rowman & Littlefield

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• A civilization built on dualism and war within and between persons, one that puts its most creative minds and its best engineers to sadistic work building more and more destructive weapons, is no civilization at all. It needs a radical transformation from the heart outwards. It needs to outgrow and outlaw war just as in the last century it outlawed slavery. The human race has outgrown war, but it hardly knows it yet.

  Matthew Fox

  War, Heart, Civilization

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• I know that there are no limits to which the powers of privilege will not go to keep the workers in slavery

  Mother Jones

  Economic Inequality, Limits, Privilege

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• We are never really beyond it... slavery continues to this day.

  Lawrence Hill

  This Day

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• Emancipate yourself from mental slavery.

  Bob Marley

  Tattoo, Rasta, Atomic Energy

  "Song: 'Uprising'". 1979.

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• I invite you, wholeheartedly, to read books that remind you of your highest self and emancipate you from mental slavery or false beliefs and illusions. The more you invest in attracting books that resonate with the frequency of your true self, the more light you will bring to the world.

  Carlos Santana

  Book, Light, Self

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• Whilst America hath been the land of promise to Europeans, and their descendants, it hath been the vale of death to millions of the wretched sons of Africa... Whilst we were offering up vows at the shrine of Liberty... whilst we swore irreconcilable hostility to her enemies... whilst we adjured the God of Hosts to witness our resolution to live free or die... we were imposing on our fellow men, who differ in complexion from us, a slavery, ten thousand times more cruel than the utmost extremity of those grievances and oppressions, of which we complained.

  St. George Tucker

  Son, Men, Land

  "A Dissertation on Slavery: With a Proposal for the Gradual Abolition of it, in the State of Virginia". Book by St. George Tucker, 1796.

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• Civil rights, as we may remember, are reducible to three primary heads; the right of personal security; the right of personal liberty; and the right of private property. In a state of slavery, the two last are wholly abolished, the person of the slave being at the absolute disposal of his master; and property, what he is incapable, in that state, either of acquiring, or holding, in his own use. Hence, it will appear how perfectly irreconcilable a state of slavery is to the principles of a democracy, which form the basis and foundation of our government.

  St. George Tucker

  Two, Rights, Government

  St. George Tucker (1990). “A Dissertation on Slavery: With a Proposal for the Gradual Abolition of it in the State of Virginia”

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• Freedom is not simply the circumstances that allow you to do whatever you want. Freedom is not only the opportunity to choose. Freedom is the strength of character to choose and to do what is right. With that in mind, our age is not an age of freedom, but an age of slavery. It is subtle, but it is real. The foundation of freedom is not power or choice. Freedom is upheld not by men and women in government, but by people who govern themselves.

  Matthew Kelly

  Freedom, Real, Character

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• Difficult as it was to hear, slavery has benefited descendants like me - I believe there is a superior athletic gene in us.

  Michael Johnson

  Believe, Athletic, Genes

  "First Take debate: Michael Johnson's comments about sprinters' ability, 'slavery'". www.espn.com. July 5, 2012.

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• Slavery is so vile and miserable an Estate of Man, and so directly opposite to the generous Temper and Courage of our Nation; that 'tis hardly to be conceived, that an Englishman, much less a Gentleman, should plead for't.

  John Locke

  Men, Opposites, Gentleman

  John Locke (1988). “Locke: Two Treatises of Government”, p.92, Cambridge University Press

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• Negro Slavery is an evil of Colossal magnitude. I am therefore utterly averse to the admission of Slavery into the Missouri Territory, and heartily wish that every Constitutional measure may be adopted for the preservation of it.

  John Adams

  Evil, Territory, Admission

  Letter to William Tudor, Jr., founders.archives.gov. November 20, 1819.

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• The Aristocratic Institutions of England [had] acted much like the Slavery Institutions of America... [in] demoralis[ing] large classes outside their own special boundaries... [in producing] a long habit of submission... [and in] enfeebl[ing] by corrupting those who should assail them.

  John Bright

  Class, America, Long

  Letter to Richard Congrieve on November 24, 1866. "1867 Disraeli, Gladstone and Revolution". Book by Maurice Cowling, p. 25, 1967.

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• Elections, especially of representatives and counselors, should be annual, there not being in the whole circle of the sciences a maxim more infallible than this, "where annual elections end, there slavery begins." These great men ... should be (chosen) once a year-Like bubbles on the sea of matter bourne, they rise, they break, and to the sea return. This will teach them the great political virtues of humility, patience, and moderation, without which every man in power becomes a ravenous beast of prey.

  John Adams

  Humility, Men, Years

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• Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power, the parent of slavery, ignorance, and barbarism, which places man upon a level with his fellow tenants of the woods.

  Abigail Adams

  Ignorance, Men, Parent

  Abigail Adams, John Adams (1840). “Letters of Mrs. Adams: The Wife of John Adams”, p.197

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• Slavery is also as ancient as war, and war as human nature.

  Voltaire

  War, Human Nature, Ancient

  Voltaire (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of Voltaire (Illustrated)”, p.4456, Delphi Classics

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• I shall oppose all slavery extension and all increase of slave representation in all places, at all times, under all circumstances, even against all inducements, against all supposed limitations of great interests, against all combinations, against all compromises.

  Daniel Webster

  Politics, Compromise, Economy

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• Let us hear the dangers of thralldom to our consciences from ignorance, extreme poverty, and dependence; in short, from civil and political slavery. Let us see delineated before us the true map of man. Let us hear the dignity of his nature, and the noble rank he holds among the works of God-that consenting to slavery is a sacrilegious breach of trust, as offensive in the sight of God as it is derogatory from our own honor or interest or happiness-and that God Almighty has promulgated from heaven liberty, peace, and goodwill to man!

  John Adams

  Peace, Ignorance, Men

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